Some Ideas

Making guns in the right way takes ages but on the Crescent figure below I gave the Converted cowboy piece a colt in metal. Now I'm going to try and reproduce this gun in miniature .Its a French hand gun and was big at Magenta and in the ACW

Heres the converted Crescent Cowboy with th new gun/pistol/Colt

This figure could be made much better bu slicing the legs in two and then slightly elongating them as the figure seems too squat but hey there were short blokes as well!!! See earlier posts and those of my other blogs for a close up of the colt.A work of Art.It will be available as a replacement hand in the future

This is a Marx figure I believe and I'd really like to get hold of this to convert it into a French Officer at Solferino.Its the perfect stance. I'm on a research bend at the moment about the wars of Italian liberation.See my other blog

This Britain's figure could easily be made into the Sardinian Guards in the Italian wars of the Risorgimento.

ATLANTIC54mm

FRENCH LINE INFANTRY at SOLFERINO

I was doing this French Line infantryman from Solferino and here is the piece up till now.Its unfinished . I plan to replace the bayonet with a proper metal one. Theres a lot more to do an the soldier I converted was not very good .It was a BMC pirate in the true Britains scale.My idea was to create line infantry in the Britains scale by getting this right then having it moulded into metal.The original model would e gone more or less so copyright was not or i not a prob I believe.I hate infringing copyright though. Has anyone got any ideas on the law on this? Anyway I'll let you know bout this one when I finish it.

Scratch built (nearly)

1. I built this up with Pattex which is a plastic that goes hard. This is more or less the finished piece.I'm doing this in metal soon so if you want it the price will be £5 unpainted in metal.This original will be sold.Contact me if interested.
   
   

SOLFERINO

1. A couple of pieces from My Solferino set up

NEW STUFF

1. The Zouave is something I have constantly worked on trying to give a finish to what worked out to be a decent little figure. Its from a BMC firing Union soldier.I added a metal bayonet.'l sell this on E.Bay .
   
   

The Crescent machine gunner went for about 23 bucks the other day on Ebay.



Thnis is a Russoian from Airfix that I turned into a US cavalry officer.The uniform is basically what they would have worn on the Rio Grand.


Some Landi ACW. Went for 7 dollars today on .Bay

Britain's are now doing these.Not bad eh?

CRESCENT FOREIGN LEGION

Although Crescent got the Havelock wriong ( they were never worn) these Crescent FFL are the finest ever done. Pity there wasn't more.But the Arabs suck big time.Thats strange as the French were so so good! repainted this and gave him a steel bayonet. heres a deetail conversion but not from me

CRESCENT WW1

At a time when no one did much as regards new stuff Crescent brought out there ww1 figures.Here is the officer.Theres always a lot of interest in these figures but I wish someone would bring out the right saddles for the cavalry.what about the Germans? Maybe I might do them as I am most likely going into plastic production.

Charming, but single: Reasons No. 4537 and 4538 why I love Southern Men ...

Charming, but single: Reasons No. 4537 and 4538 why I love Southern Men ...

ITALIAN ART OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

Many of my present plastic conversions are based on first hand testimony from the likes of painters such as Giovanni Fattori pictured below. This is a painting of Tuscan cavalry on patrol in the countryside of the region.Fattori is reliable as he was a stickler for detail

Above is one of his battle paintings of the war against Austria

Another good source for building scenary for the models of this period is finding and photographing dwellings of the period-the writing on this house says

"In June 1859 the allied army surprised the Austrian army creating this important glorious act"

Italian wars conversions

As with the post below paintings are important to get uniform details correct. Here we are at Rome and we can see the Garibaldians take a part of the city

1. The Italian cavalry at Custoza
   Napoleon the third at Solferino
   
   

A Piedmontese square

This is by Fattori.The greatest of the war artists of the time

Ita,lian Dragoons

the Guards on the left are perfect conversion material for creating the Sardinian Guards of the wars in Italy

Here are some Red skorpio French .with minimal skill they could be turned into French Chasseurs au Pied or Neopolitan infantry of the period

On the Wine Trail in Italy: Croce e Delizia

On the Wine Trail in Italy: Croce e Delizia

ITALIAN BERSAGLIERI AND ACW CONVERSIONS

A new conversion I'm working on .ACW ITALARI into Bersagleri

Replicants Conversion

A Replicants and a BMC conversion

Herald conversion

BMC and Replicants

NEW RUSSIANS

Someone moulded these for a modern art exhib I think.Not in our network anyway